Taiwanese Students' Gender, Age, Interdependent and Independent Self-Construal, and Collective Self-Esteem as Predictors of Professional Psychological Help-Seeking Attitudes

Interdependent self-construal, collective self-esteem, age, and gender were used to predict attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help among a sample of junior high, high school, and college students in Taiwan ( N = 594). Self-construal, collective self-esteem, and help-seeking attitudes were measured by the Self-Construal Scale ( T. M. Singelis, 1994 ), the Collective Self-Esteem Scale Revised ( R. Luhtanen & J. Crocker, 1992 ), and the Attitudes Towards Seeking Professional Psychological Help Scale ( E. H. Fischer & J. L. Turner, 1970 ), respectively. By using stepwise regression, each of the independent factors with the exception of age significantly predicted the dependent variable, professional psychological help-seeking attitudes. Implications for counseling and future research are addressed.